Rock Chick

What we'll need

a Tube
a Mask
some animated notes
Plugins used: Toadies - Ommadawn and Glasswork Colour

Supplies
Let's get started
  1. Open your tube and mask in PSP
  2. Open een new transparent image of 500x500 px
  3. Flood fill with White
  4. Add a new Raster Layer and Flood fill with a color from your tube
  5. Layers / New Layer Mask / From Image and apply the Zoom10.jpg
  6. Layers / Merge / Merge Group
  7. Activate your Circle Selection Tool
  8. Left click in the center of your mask and hold down your mousebutton while you drag your selection to the bottom right corner. Just select a nice part of your mask, making it not to large, but also not to small. (for those who don't wanna try themselves, I've added a saved selection of my circle)
  9. Selections / Invert and press your delete key once
  10. Select none
  11. Duplicate your mask layer and activate the original mask layer
  12. Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur with a radius of 10
  13. Effects / Plugins / Toadies / Glassworks Colour



  14. Activate your Macic Wand and click on the outside of your shape
  15. Press your Delete key once and Invert your selection
  16. Apply a Drop Shadow and Deselect



  17. Activate your Top Layer and
  18. Select All - Float - Defloat
  19. Effects / Plugins / Toadies / Ommadawn



  20. Effects / Texture effects / Mosaique Antique



  21. Deselect
  22. Copy and Paste your Tube as a new Layer
  23. Apply a Drop Shadow and move it to a place you like



  24. Add your Text and apply a Drop Shadow
  25. Add your Watermark and Merge All Layers

Time for the animated part

 

  1. Copy your Image
  2. Open up Animation Shop (AS) and the aninotes06.mng file
  3. Edit / Select All
  4. Paste your Image as a New Animation
  5. Edit / Duplicate (keep on repeating this step until you have 12 frames)
  6. Edit / Select All
  7. Left click and hold on the first frame of the aninotes06
  8. Drag it into the first frame of your image and release your mouse button when you have it on a spot you like
  9. Preview your animation by clicking on at the top right off your screen
  10. When you are satisfied with your animation save it as a GIF
And you're done!! Hope you liked this one!

Here's another example


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